It's CLONUS with a big budget

Rating: 3/10 (14 July 2005)

The first two thirds of the film are lifted almost directly from Robert Fiveson's CLONUS (aka PARTS: THE CLONUS HORROR), an almost forgotten film from the late seventies. It's all there: the isolated compound, the diets and exercise, the indoctrination, and the clones bred to be simple and compliant and not to question authority. The biggest difference is the budget and the scale.
In this version, Ewan McGregor is the lone voice who starts to question his existence and yearn for something more than the regimented life in a world that looks like a cross between an antiseptic prison and a socialist compound overseen by a seemingly benign Big Brother, who manages everything from clothing to diet to the lottery that sends the lucky winners to "the Island."
The final third is pure Michael Bay, however: a half-baked plan that stretches credulity and maximizes on screen destruction.
Fiveson should sue.